[Bug 29262] .Trash on removable media?

[Andrew Jorgensen]

Public bug reported:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/29262

Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed

Description:
Perhaps this has been discussed in detail before but I think it's wrong
to use the .Trash mechanism on removable media.  The trouble is
primarily that removable media don't usually have the space to handle
it, but here's an important scenario:

Andrew uses nautilus to manage the files on his MP3 player.  It only has
256 MB, so he deletes one directory to make room for another.
Unfortunately there isn't any more space than there was before he
removed the directory.

To make things worse, when he unplugs his MP3 player he finds that all
his old songs are still there only now they're hidden.

Emptying the trash sounds like a good idea, but Andrew has been meaning
to sift through there and make sure he didn't throw away anything
valuable and doesn't feel up to the task right now.